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It’s just before 3 p.m. when I get to Franklin Field on April 17. Most Penn students are in the midst of daytime parties and finishing up classes before heading to the concert in a few hours.

For the members of the Social Planning and Events Concerts Committee, their day started at 8:30 a.m.

I walk into the stadium and, for the most part it looks just like any other day at the field. The lacrosse team is running drills on the turf, and a few runners are doing sprints along the track.

The one noticeable difference is the giant stage facing the back part of the bleachers — one that will soon host Kesha and Kygo and thousands of Penn students.

Outside the stadium, dozens of students run around lifting bike racks into long lines that, as of yet, make no sense to me. Music drifts out of a small speaker one of the committee members has brought with them while they work. I stand and watch quietly as the production comes together.

My quiet musings are interrupted when one of the committee members comes up and asks abruptly “Sorry, do you The Spring Fling concert was organized by a small, tight-knit group of about 30 SPEC Concerts members.

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A suspect was arrested on Thursday who confessed to robbing four banks

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A recent robbery at the TD Bank near campus could be connected to a suspect with over 10 other robberies under his belt.

On April 9, Penn Police and the Philadelphia Police Department responded to a robbery alarm at the TD Bank located at 3735 Walnut St. According to the police report, the unidentified male suspect handed a demand note to the teller. After receiving money from the teller, he fled the scene. He reportedly did not have any weapons on him and did not cause any injuries.

On Thursday, Philadelphia Police arrested 41-year-old Rashon Mitchell for a string of robberies of a similar nature in the Philadelphia area. Mitchell confessed to having robbed four banks. Court documents did not include the names of all the banks. It is currently unverified whether Mitchell was responsible for the TD Bank robbery.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office is prosecuting Mitchell for a robbery that occurred on Feb. 28, 2015 at the Republic Bank branch located at 1601 Market Street. According to a pre-trial motion filed by the U.S. Attorney’s office, Mitchell entered the bank at 1:30 p.m. and handed the teller a note which read “Just give me 3 grand and no one gets hurt.”

The teller gave Mitchell $913 along with a

angles and diagonal lines of the different bleacher sections, marked EE and EC, for both public and Penn. They redo several rows of bike racks without complaint. It’s a long and tedious job, but is essential to making the concert run smoothly.

The whole operation is streamlined with walkie-talkies, clipped to the hips of many of the committee members and all three of the directors.

SPEC Concert Director and Engineering sophomore Kelsey Simet signals over the walkietalkie that she needs someone to bring her “paper towels and some kind of cleaning product.”

Within a matter of seconds, someone produces them.

Simet then sharply turns around and heads back inside to deal with another snag. Opener Kygo has, at the last minute, requested that several more names be added to his VIP guest list.

“Kygo wants to change the names on his guest list now, three and a half hours before doors open,” Simet explains quickly. “It would normally not be a big deal, but we only have a certain number of passes that we print, and it’s hard to add more now.”

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Last year, students raised concerns about the culture of Spring Fling changing due to the supervision of alcohol monitors. This year, wristbands to get into parties added a new element to the weekend.

The Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement began sending undercover cops to Fling three years ago. Under the watch of police and University limitations of up to eight registered parties for the weekend, students devised new ways of getting around restrictions.

As upperclassmen were aware of the police presence, several fraternities had wristbands for their closed parties for crowd control, and some threw downtowns to get off campus. The wristbands came with various levels of fees. For example, a ticket to the Bamboo Bar was $35 before a $2 online processing fee, while a Friday carnival on campus cost $5.

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She paces around the room, dubbed the “Committee Room” for the purposes of the concert, while calling the woman in charge of printing the original passes. When the woman agrees to print the extra passes right away, Simet lets out a sigh of relief. “You are my guardian angel,” she says gratefully.

The Committee Room is a large, open room, lined with wood paneling and portraits of Penn Athletics alumni. A big table off to the side holds bottles of water, sandwiches and snacks for committee members to eat as they work. Every outlet in the room is stuffed with a phone charger; just like their owners, committee members’ cell phones are dying quickly from the constant messaging and phone calls.

Right across from the Committee Room is another room. The doors have glass panes in them, but my view inside is blocked by a large, black curtain. “That’s Kygo’s dressing room,” one of the committee members in the room informs me.

“We wanted to give him some privacy.”

In a clearly well-practiced routine, Simet opens the weather app on her phone, again checking to see

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“Now it’s saying it’s not supposed to rain until six,” she says a bit worriedly. The weather has a lot to do with how they can prepare for the concert, she explains. If it rains, a lot of things will have to be moved indoors.

After taking care of Kygo’s guest list, we head outside, where SPEC Concerts Directors and College seniors Suvadip Choudhury and Billy Ford are coordinating with Penn Athletics staff to clear the stadium before Kesha’s sound check is set to begin at 4 p.m.

With less than three hours until doors to the concert open, there is still a lot of work to be done, but even the directors take a minute to listen to the sound check.

The rest only lasts for a moment before members are back on their feet and aligning even more bike racks. Just as it seems the “bikeracking” process is complete, committee members again head to the field. I follow, only to see Kygo walking onto the field to greet us.

One of the perks of being on SPEC Concerts, Choudhury explains to me, is that you get a meet-and-greet with each of the artists. Kesha’s meet-and-greet was scheduled for 9:15 p.m. that night, just before she would take the stage.

Kygo greets the committee warmly, eagerly posing for both professional group shots and selfies. He happily answers questions about his music and graciously thanks SPEC for being so welcoming to him.

After Kygo retreats to his dressing room, it’s back to work for the committee. They grab signs denoting seating sections and informing concert goers that “NO GLITTER” will be allowed inside the stadium and start taping them to the bike racks. The process is barely complete when the first guests arrive, tickets in hand, waiting for the gates to open.

I sit in the Committee Room watching people line up outside and listening to the walkie-talkies beeping with new messages. I hear Ford ask someone to go pick up dinner for some of Kesha’s staff members.

Choudhury asks if anyone has the keys to one of the golf carts. They’re frantic and hurried, but almost always end with “thank you,” again reinforcing how much of a team effort the production really is.

College junior and SPEC Concerts Hospitality sub-chair Neil Gade, who has just returned from fetching Kesha’s lawn chair and confetti poppers, now stands outside Franklin Field, letting Penn students with general admission tickets into

the stadium.

“This is when it really all comes together,” he said. “I’m a musician myself, so I’m a huge fan of live music. After months of work, getting to see it all happen like this is really cool.”

Nursing freshman and SPEC Concerts Ticketing sub-chair Joyce Pan, who is also letting people into the concert, agreed. “Today was a really great day to kind of bond with everyone. We’re usually so caught up in our own tasks, that being able to be here all together is really cool,” she said.

I head to the other entrance to the field, where people with floor passes to the concert are entering. One of the committee members has confiscated a Solo cup of glitter from someone and is now sprinkling it on other concert-goers as they walk in.

Graduate advisor to SPEC and Graduate School of Education student Polet Milian watches with me as more and more students flood onto the floor. “On the day of the concert, my job is really just to fill in wherever I’m needed,” she explains. “It’s a great way for me to meet undergrads and kind of stay connected to campus.”

Kygo won’t come on stage for another hour and a half, but dozens of students are already sprinting onto

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As all of the final pieces come together, the committee begins to relax. Kygo walks out to huge applause from the audience and begins his set. With their own badges, some committee members wander around behind or on the side of the stage during his performance. Others choose to enter the floor with their friends.

The show goes off largely without a hitch. Every once in a while, I see someone speaking into a walkietalkie. MERT comes to assist a girl on the floor at one point. But for the most part, SPEC members get to relax with their peers.

Just before 9:15, Kesha’s dancers descend the staircase, followed by Kesha herself. She greets us warmly, telling us to enjoy the show and takes pictures with everyone. She is especially appreciative of the glitter some committee members have donned in her honor.

Within a matter of minutes, she’s gone, taking the stage to wild cheers.

I stand just in front of the barrier to the floor section. The security guards willingly take students’ phones to take pictures of them. One even lets a little girl, accompanied on the floor with her mother, sit down in front of the barrier to watch.

The concert is over sooner than

I expect. Kesha leaves the stage to wild roars from the audience after her encore performance of “Die Young,” and drives her own golf cart back to her dressing room.

At this point, most concert-goers are making their way out of the stadium and on to more parties for the night — but not SPEC. Committee members retreat to the Committee Room, where they divide up into teams to disassemble bike racks, take down signs and clean up the Committee Room and the artists’ dressing rooms.

It’s past 1 a.m. by the time I climb into a golf cart with Choudhury and ride back to Houston Hall, where they drop off any leftover snacks and supplies from the concert.

“This is actually early for us,” Choudhury explains. “I’ve done SPEC Concerts all four years, and the earliest I can remember getting out of here is 2 a.m.”

It wasn’t a conventional way to experience the Fling concert so many of my friends will talk about in the morning. It was exhausting and, at many points, stressful. But if nothing else, it gave me an appreciation for the fact that this concert that thousands of my peers experienced was organized by this small, tight-knit group of the 30 or so SPEC Concerts members.

Graduates choose to make Penn their permanent home More than half of positions are in Penn Health System JOE LI Staff Reporter

Every year, thousands of Penn students leave campus after graduating to pursue careers across the globe, but many never leave.

Along with Goldman Sachs and Teach For America, Penn has consistently ranked among the top employers of its own students for the past several years, according to employment data from career survey reports. Director of Career Services Patricia Rose said that this is not surprising, as working for Penn after graduation is a very attractive option.

“Jobs at Penn have excellent benefits. These involve tuition for

taking up to two classes every semester, health and dental benefits, vacation, etc.," she said. “A lot of these students also have their close friends and connections here on campus. They might also have an apartment, and if they want to take a few years to prepare for graduate schools, Penn is a good place to start.”

Rose mentioned that typical fulltime positions at Penn can be found in research centers and laboratories, the Office of Investment, the Office of Admissions and the Athletic Department, among others. More than half of all the positions, however, fall under the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which includes the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.

Pushkar Sohoni received his master’s degree from the School of Design in 2002 and a doctorate in the History of Art from the School of Arts and Sciences in 2010. He is now working as the South Asian librarian in the Penn Libraries system and a lecturer in the South Asian Studies Department.

Sohoni said he enjoys working in a familiar place. The Penn Libraries system, he said, has a great collection of South Asian artifacts and manuscripts that he loves to study through his work. He added that there are always new questions and challenges with the work he does.

“The University is much bigger than what is exposed to you as a student. You might unfold more and more interesting stuff as you go on to work for it,” he said.

2010 College graduate David Lewis, unlike Sohoni, is about to finish his job at Penn. Soon after graduating as a health and societies major, Lewis returned to pursue a master’s degree at the Perelman School of Medicine, as he wanted to prepare for dental school.

While taking classes, Lewis got a job as a research coordinator in the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine. This position not only helped him pay the tuition, but also gave him research experience to publish several papers. This eventually helped him gain acceptance into several top medical schools in the country.

Most students learn about fulltime positions through work-study programs or acquaintanceships with professors and staff. Currently, there isn’t a regular career

fair for jobs at Penn. Rose said this is mainly because different offices usually hire at different times.

“There isn’t a fixed time for job openings like banks, so it’s hard to coordinate,” Rose said.

Rose added that Penn is very happy to see alumni apply for jobs at the University and the school prefers hiring “our own people.”

Lewis agreed. “I sometimes help with recruiting, and when I see a resume that says somebody is from Penn, that one gets my attention right away,” he said. “I myself am a perfect example of this. We really want to hire someone who knows the system well.”

Although Lewis was accepted to the School of Dental Medicine, a school that he loved, he chose to pursue his doctor’s program in his home state of New York rather than

stay at Penn for several more years.

The State University of New York at Buffalo offered him a full-tuition scholarship, and Lewis wanted to be closer to home after almost nine years in Philadelphia.

“It’s a bittersweet feeling. I have great friends and connections here, but it’s time to move on,” Lewis said, adding that he was excited to enjoy his last Spring Fling at Penn.

Whether graduates want to find jobs right away or wait a few years, opportunities at Penn can fulfill their needs.

“Penn is a great employer.

The fact is, [at] an institution this large, there are opportunities in finance, IT, everywhere,” Rose said. “Students who want to stay in Philadelphia after graduation should definitely consider working at Penn.”

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Mayoral candidates in tight race for Phila. Democratic primary Mayoral candidates are beginning to advertise through television ads

JONATHAN BAER Staff Reporter

As the Philadelphia mayoral primary enters its final month, Philadelphians will look at two remaining factors to help determine their next mayor: TV ads and endorsements.

Six Democratic candidates are vying to win the Democratic primary on May 19, and the race remains wide open.

While State Sen. Anthony Williams, former District Attorney Lynne Abraham and former City Councilman Jim Kenney have been viewed as the favorites, due to a lack of independent polling, no true frontrunner has been identified.

Abraham’s campaign released an internal poll conducted on March 17 that showed her with 30 percent of the vote, Kenney and Williams with 14 percent and the rest of the field with under 6 percent. In a city that tends to vote along racial lines, the poll also put Abraham in the lead for the black vote. The poll also stated that 29 percent of Philadelphians remain undecided.

Regardless, the validity and predictive value of Abraham’s internal poll is limited. “We don’t have any

really reliable polls,” said G. Terry Madonna, director of Franklin and Marshall College’s Center for Politics and Public Affairs, who has conducted polls in past mayoral elections. “Any time a party or candidate or interest group that is supporting a candidate puts out a poll, it’s going to be self-serving.

I’m not saying they don’t know how to do them, but it is definitely going to be self-serving.”

A more telling measure of the state of the race is endorsements, which is an area where Kenney and Williams have excelled.

According to Newsworks’ Mayoral-Race Endorsement Tracker, Kenney has 22 endorsements from major unions — including the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and the Philadelphia Council AFLCIO — interest groups and local leaders. Williams is in second with 10, including city councilmen and labor unions, whereas former Judge Nelson Diaz has five, Abraham has one and former PGW executive Doug Oliver and former State Sen. T. Milton Street have none.

“It’s not arguable that the lion’s share of the big endorsements have gone to Kenney,” Madonna said. “That’s where Kenney might have an advantage. Because of the unions, he’ll have bodies on the ground.”

Even though the endorsements are a powerful indicator of political

support, there are some major political players who have yet to endorse any candidate. For instance, the Democratic City Committee of Philadelphia has decided not to endorse any Democratic candidate, which shows a lack of consensus among local Democratic officials.

But there is still time left in the race, and television advertising will play a major role in establishing name recognition and swaying undecided Democratic voters.

Williams and Kenney have emerged as the first two candidates to advertise on television. Williams’ campaign has spent almost $200,000 on buying airtime.

American Cities, an independent political action committee, has also spent over $1 million on advertisements supporting Williams. While Kenney’s campaign has yet to spend any money on television ads, two independent committees have spent around $500,000 on buying airtime for ads supporting Kenney.

“You’ve got to get on TV, and you got to get a presence. We know who these people are ... but the average voters don’t know,” Madonna said. “I basically think it’s a twoperson race with an outside chance for Abraham. That’s not to say that Oliver and Nelson aren’t qualified, but it’s a question of whether they can raise the money and the support. And that’s the major difficulty: money and support.”

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from hanging out with friends who were able to get them.

“The use of wristbands had some impact on the fact that people had to plan ahead about what parties they wanted to go to, but they were fairly easily attainable for on-campus parties that I don’t think they did that much for crowd control. I don’t believe the bouncers at the oncampus parties were doing that much to spot fakes,” College junior Julie MacDonough said.

Money could have also driven the exclusivity of wristbands.

“I think wristbands make things more expensive and create a divide between people who can or will spend the

money for them, and the people who can’t,” College sophomore Hannah Van Drie said. “At the same time, it also can make you feel more official and even relevant to have them.”

The increased security impacted some people’s plans, while others were not hassled in any way.

“There was definitely an increase in police activity this weekend. Since this was my first Fling being 21, I even interacted with the police with no concerns about getting in trouble.” MacDonough said.

College senior Charlie Lynch, on the other hand, said he had negative interactions with the police this weekend.

“My friends got stopped and ID’ed, and police even broke up closed parties with bouncers,”

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he said of on-campus parties.

Charlie went to both on- and off-campus events and noted that in addition to more police on campus, the downtown bouncers seemed more strict than usual.

“A friend of mine got dragged out of a downtown by his neck and thrown onto his face on the sidewalk. I couldn’t imagine that happening on campus,” he said.

Still, Van Drie said, Fling overall felt less policed.

“I mean obviously there was a lot of security in the Quad, but I felt like last year everyone really hyped up the level of police activity, and it was something I was really aware of,” she said, “but this year it wasn’t really a concern for me.”

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OPINION The real value of study abroad

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ANOTHER LOOK | Why leaving Penn for a semester can be so illuminating

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he woman I rented a room from in France told me she had two goals in life: to live in Paris, and to travel a lot. Her apartment in the 13th arrondissement was filled with trinkets she had picked up in the multiple continents she had visited over the years. While I was there, she took her three weeks’ vacation to travel to Namibia, returning with hundreds of photos and many stories to tell.

I’m pretty confident in my belief that, in terms of primary ambitions, those two goals aren’t very “Penn.” I doubt I would have encountered someone with a similar approach to life if I hadn’t skipped campus for a semester during my junior year. But they’re emblematic of why it was so important that I did.

They represent, I think, the real value of study abroad.

As a Penn Abroad ambassador, I talk to a lot of sopho-

mores who are anxious about credit transfers and college requirements. More fundamental, though, is the fear that going abroad for a semester is kind of a frivolous thing to do. “Travel broadens the mind” seems like a bit of

“Penn bubble” to a different continent.

But if you manage to avoid this attitude, and I think most of us do, your semester away from Penn can be a key part of your Penn experience.

For me, the opportunity to

A lot of the things I had built the structure of my life around were, outside of Penn, optional or nonexistent.

Spending a semester outside of our campus’s value system is uncomfortable at first.

Things that are considered important at Penn temporarily disappear, and all that’s left to consider is what’s important to you.” a shaky cliche when held up against something so evidently valuable as a semester of Ivy League education. I think this doubt is reasonable.

Travel doesn’t necessarily broaden the mind. It’s possible to live in another country for a few months without learning much of anything.

A group of American friends and a “EuroTrip” mentality is all it takes to extend the

travel was secondary to the perspective that came from removing myself from Penn for a semester, not just physically, but also mentally.

In fact, the impact of my semester away came just as much from where I wasn’t as from where I was. I wasn’t walking down Locust Walk every morning. I wasn’t filling out When2meets. I wasn’t running for any club boards.

You’re plunged into an environment in which people hold an entirely different set of values. The ties you think you need in order to feel secure about your identity are cut off for a period of time, and that’s disorienting.

But finding out that you can live without them is a priceless realization. It frees you from the kind of tunnel vision that can start to

prevail if you’re immersed in the same atmosphere for four years. Things that are considered important at Penn temporarily disappear, and all that’s left to consider is what’s important to you.

This kind of freedom allows you to arrange your priorities with a little more perspective. It allows you to choose the life you want for yourself — to really choose it — not to be shuttled along the path that looks the most legitimate or impressive to the average Penn student.

A good education gives you the knowledge and clarity of thinking to know not just what you care about, but why you care about it. Studying abroad can lend this needed perspective.

If I hadn’t left Penn for a semester, I’d probably be worried about graduating next month. I’d be worried about the uncertainty that will come with my sudden release from this world of

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY clearly delineated pathways and signposted ladders to success. But if there’s anything studying abroad clarified for me, it’s that Penn is just one very small slice of a much larger world — it’s just four years of our much longer lives. I hope to spend some of mine living in Paris. And I hope to travel a lot.

SOPHIA WUSHANLEY is a College senior from Millersville, Pa., studying philosophy. Her email address is wsophia@ sas.upenn.edu. “Another Look” appears every other Monday.

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ast month, Major General Muhammadu Buhari was elected to lead Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, in an historic election that brought worldwide acclaim as it symbolized a new era in the country’s democracy. A few days later, alShabaab terrorists stormed a university campus in Garissa, Kenya, leaving at least 147 students and staff dead and sparking worldwide outrage and shows of support for the affected Kenyans. Journalists from The New York Times filed reports from Kano, Nigeria, and Gatundu, Kenya, within a week in the wake of these disparate events. (Incidentally, Kenya and Nigeria are two of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world.)

Amidst all this, South African comedian Trevor Noah was announced as Jon Stewart’s replacement on “The Daily Show” here in the U.S., as Noah’s countrymen rallied to remove Cecil Rhodes’ statue from the University of

GUEST COLUMN BY ADERINOLA ADEJARE AND ANGELA DDAMBA Cape Town’s campus. The world is changing, and Africa is at the frontier of that transformation.

Africa is a diverse continent, with a great number of political, economic and cultural strides being taken, in line with the “Africa rising” narrative. Despite the ongoing threats from al-Shabaab and

rope, which will make up only 7 percent.

And yet, at this very moment, the University of Pennsylvania — our alma mater — has decided to shut down the Africa Center, where we were, and many others have been, African Studies majors. The abrupt closure of the Center is coupled with the news that the

terdisciplinary work.

We, however, take exception to the fact that the Africa Center, the only formal space dedicated to Africa at Penn, is shutting down. Our peer institutions with combined departments also have separate centers focused on Africa. We have to ask: Does an elite and well-endowed institution like

The world is changing, and Africa is at the frontier of that transformation.”

Boko Haram and irritation with “Presidents for Life,” the continent continues to develop rapidly. This is not only important for the moment we live in but for the near future.

According to the UN, by 2050, 24 percent of the world’s population will be African, with a median age of 25.4. Contrast this to the Americas, which will make up 13 percent of the world’s population, and Eu-

non-language parts of African studies will be merged with the Africana Studies Department. We are not as concerned about the joint program: many peer institutions have combined African and Africana departments. Ultimately, students and faculty interested in African Studies would probably succeed in a combined department and even find opportunities for important in-

the University of Pennsylvania really lack the funds to support a standalone Africa Center? We wonder.

With Africa in global focus, what does it mean to shut down the Africa Center at Penn? First, it undercuts Penn as a globally engaged institution. Surely 1.1 billion people merit a substantial and visible level of engagement on such a globally minded campus. Sec-

ond, it deprives all students of the ability to engage with the continent on a more personal platform, not only through degree-seeking programs, but through speaker series, student symposia and cultural exchange events, for instance.

We ask, therefore, that the SAS Deans and the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives reconsider this decision and reinstate the Africa Center at Penn for the service of its African students and indeed, the University at large. In so doing, we ask that Penn join its academic counterparts in positioning Africa as a continent worthy of serious scholarship and investment, symbolized by its own well-funded Center.

As Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and fellow Penn alumnus wrote in his 1970 book “Class Struggles in Africa,” “In Africa where so many different kinds of political, social and economic conditions exist it is not an easy task to generalize on political and socio-economic patterns.

Remnants of communalism and feudalism still remain and in parts of the continent ways of life have changed very little from traditional times.

In other areas a high level of industrialization and urbanization has been achieved. Yet in spite of Africa’s socioeconomic and political diversity it is possible to discern certain common political, social and economic conditions and problems.” Nkrumah’s words still resonate today, and a dedicated Africa Center will allow Penn’s students and faculty to explore these conditions more robustly.

ADERINOLA “DERI” ADEJARE is a 2013 College graduate, born and raised in Nigeria until the age of 10. Her email address is adejare@alumni.upenn.edu.

ANGELA DDAMBA is a 2011 College graduate, born in Uganda and raised in Kenya. Her email address is angelana@alumni.upenn. edu.

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Penn alum Dr. Oz criticized for ‘quack treatments’ A group of doctors called for Oz’s removal from the Columbia faculty COREY STERN Deputy News Editor

A group of doctors from across the country have suggested their own “quick fix” for Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons: Fire Dr. Mehmet Oz. Last week, a group of MD’s led by Henry Miller of Stanford University called for the removal of Oz, a Penn alumnus, from the Columbia faculty because of his “disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine” as well as his promotion of “quack treatments.” Oz, an author and Emmy Award winner best known for his show, “The Dr. Oz Show,”

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dye pack. A dye pack is a radiooperated device that banks often put within a stack of hollowedout bills that permanently stains the bills when it is activated upon leaving the bank. When the dye pack exploded, Mitchell allegedly discarded the stack.

On March 2, the Philadelphia FBI distributed a press release with information about the robbery and surveillance photographs from the bank. On March 30, FBI Supervisory Special Agent Steve McQueen contacted the Philadelphia FBI with information from a confidential informant who said he recognized the bank robber as “Rashon” or “Rasheed” who worked at “Lorenzo’s Deli” in Philadelphia.

The next day, FBI Special Agent John Sermons ran a report for all bank robbers released from prison since 2012. Sermons identified a Rashon Mitchell who had

is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon and the Vice Chair of Columbia’s Department of Surgery.

He was a regular contributor to the Oprah Winfrey Show and has hosted The Dr. Oz Show since 2009.

Oz, who received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, holds two degrees from Penn. In 1986 he received both his MBA from Wharton and his MD from what is now the Perelman School of Medicine. During his time at Penn, he served as president of the medical student body. Oz also returned to Penn in 2012 to deliver the keynote address at the Wharton MBA graduation ceremony.

“We are surprised and dismayed that Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons would permit Dr. Mehmet Oz to occupy

been released from prison in 2013 after being convicted for seven bank robberies.

Sermons consulted with Mitchell’s parole officer and his employer. The employer confirmed that Mitchell did not show up to work on the day of the robbery and had shaved his beard by the time he came to work the next day. Mitchell was arrested on April 16 after the Philadelphia Police and Philadelphia FBI received a tip.

On April 17, the U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a pre-trial detention motion arguing that Mitchell is a flight risk and should therefore not be released on bail. If convicted, Mitchell could face about six to eight years in jail based on federal sentencing guidelines, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office motion.

The Philadelphia Police and Philadelphia FBI were unable to be immediately reached for comment before the time of publication.

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a faculty appointment, let alone a senior administrative position in the Department of Surgery,” Miller wrote to the school’s dean, Lee Goldman. “He has manifested an egregious lack of integrity by promoting quack treatments and cures in the interest of personal financial gain.”

A graduate of Penn’s joint MD/ MBA program, Oz has long harbored interest both in medicine and beyond.

“I’ve always enjoyed doing two things at the same time, and that’s what I did at Penn,” Oz told Wharton Magazine, referring to his decision to pursue a joint MD/MBA. “I could go in the morning to the clinic and treat diabetes patients, and then in the afternoon go learn about accounting and real estate transactions.”

Among the signees of the letter was at least one Penn alum, Samuel Schneider, a New Jersey psychiatrist and 1968 College graduate. But the Quaker connection did not seem to prevent the doctors from holding back on their choice of words.

“Dr. Oz is guilty of either outrageous conflicts of interest or flawed judgments about what constitutes appropriate medical treatments, or both,” the letter concluded. “Whatever the nature of his pathology, members of the public are being misled and endangered, which makes Dr. Oz’s presence on the faculty of a prestigious medical institution unacceptable.”

A spokesperson for Columbia University Medical Center responded to the letter by saying, “Columbia is committed to the

principle of academic freedom and to upholding faculty members’ freedom of expression for statements they make in public discussion.”

This is not the first time Oz’s professionalism as a doctor has been called into question. In 2011, Oz was criticized by the Food and Drug Administration for falsely claiming that apple juice has dangerous levels of arsenic. Last June, Oz appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance to answer questions about his promotion of weight loss products, for which he has been known to use flowery language with words like “magic” and “miracle.”

“I don’t get why you need to say this stuff because you know it’s not true,” Senator Claire McCaskill, the subcommittee’s chairwoman said

to Oz. “So why, when you have this amazing megaphone and this amazing ability to communicate, would you cheapen your show by saying things like that?”

Last December, a study published in the British Medical Journal found that only about 54 percent of medical claims Oz made on his show could be backed up by evidence.

Despite the criticism, Oz maintains that his work comprises valid medical practice.

“I bring the public information that will help them on their path to be their best selves,” Oz wrote in a Facebook post on Friday in response to the letter. “We provide multiple points of view, including mine which is offered without conflict of interest. That doesn’t sit well with certain agendas which distort the facts.”

Pixar animator brings emotions to life for upcoming movie ‘Inside Out’ Holland worked with psychologists during the animation process

TIFFANY YAU Contributing Reporter

With the help of animator Dan Holland , Pixar is ready to introduce the little voices in people’s heads.

On April 17, Disney Pixar’s “Inside Out” animator Dan Holland spoke to the Penn and Drexel student bodies, presenting them with an overview of the film’s storyline, his contributions and challenges he faced in creating the animation of this major animated movie.

Holland has previously worked on several Pixar animations, including “The Incredibles,” “Wall-E,” “Toy Story 3,” “Cars 2” and “Up.” He has also played a major role in creating “The Incredibles’” short, “Jack-Jack Attack,” and on commercials for Tokyo Disneyland’s Buzz Lightyear ride.

As an animator for “Inside Out,” Holland worked with the production and set designer to construct 11-year-old Riley Anderson’s mind, which includes her primary emotions — Joy, Anger, Disgust, Fear and Sadness — and even segments such as her imaginary boyfriend generator.

The film explores how these

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parts of her subconscious lead and guide young Riley through struggling to adjust to her new life after her father starts working in San Francisco.

Holland explained the process and significance of giving these emotions life.

“The major factor was to make them reflect the way those words feel,” he said. “For instance, what does ‘Joy’ look and feel like to most people?

How can you design a character so that anyone in the world will know what emotion it is when they see it? That’s the biggest

consideration: readability and entertainment value.”

He and his team conferred with several psychologists and other specialists to generate the most accurate and best visual depiction to complement the story and its overarching theme “that all of our emotions are important; sadness is just as important as joy.”

“We explored how the brain worked, and it felt like what we created is very similar to what we were told; no one really knows how it works, and people have such different opinions,”

Holland said.

With his and his team’s creativity, they were able to construct the human consciousness in “Inside Out.” Holland also explained his opinion on animation’s potential to overtake real-world film.

“The worlds are beginning to collide that there are so many digital effects that they’re almost 50 percent animation,” he said.

Additionally, Holland elaborated on the highlights of his work as an animator.

“The highlight for me is seeing my part go all the way through: when someone hands me a problem and me being able to solve it in the most entertaining way possible. Problem solving and coming up with something that I’ve never even considered beforehand.”

Holland has experienced years of hard work to become as successful as he is as an animator for Pixar. He offered words of wisdom to inspire individuals interested in the film and animation industry.

“Find what you are passionate about and mine that passion,” he said. “Use that to supply you with the inspiration for your work. Do the thing you want to do and what you care about.

Be an artist first, then work at a place second.”

Physician general nominee’s speech caps off Day of Silence Event was hosted by Lambda Grads, an umbrella LGBT group

by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf to be the next physician general for the state. She will be the highest ranking transgender woman in congress if elected.

LILY ZANDI Edward Wu, the chair of Contributing Reporter Lambda Grads, spoke about how the organization was created to esRachel Levine is close to being tablish affinity among the various the highest ranking transgender LGBT groups across the nation, woman in Pennsylvania’s state Lambda Grads was created. Event government. sponsors included OsTEM, Penn On April 16, Levine spoke at an Dental Medicine, Day of Silence, event held by Lambda Grads, an OutEd, QSP2, and Lambda Law. LGBT organization for graduate A representative from each group students. Her speech was the key- had the opportunity to speak about note event for the Day of Silence their individual contributions to organized by the Lambda Grads, the Day of Silence and the LGBT in which participants remained community. Subsequently, atsilent for all of Friday. tendees had the option to socialize Levine was recently nominated with the various sponsors and each

other.

Lorre Atlan, the coordinator for the event, explained that the Day of Silence has been the largest movement to create a safer environment for LGBT students in schools.

Levine began by dedicating her speech to two students named Leelah and Ash — two transgender youths who have recently committed suicide. She asked the audience to participate in a moment of silence to honor all of the members of the LGBT community who have taken their lives.

“LGBT kids need to know that someone is there for them,” she said.

Growing up in a middle class, conservative environment, Levine never felt that she fit the mold.

Levine was a straight-A student at a prestigious high school, an excellent athlete who went on to attend Harvard University and subsequently Tulane University School of Medicine, where she realized she was different.

“I wanted to be a girl but I was in the body of a boy,” she said.

As of 40 years ago, the term “transgender” had yet to be coined.

Levine realized that she struggled with her sexual identity but had no frame of reference or any person to look to as an exemplar or to confide in.

“I always felt I had this secret that I could never tell anybody,” she said.

Out of fear of social transgression, Levine compartmentalized

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“It’s important not to surprise people … I transitioned very slowly … For me that was helpful, people got used to it,” she said.

Levine is motivated to rectify the institutional prejudices that discriminate against the LGBT community. Further, if elected, Levine hopes to focus on the research and development of an HIV vaccination, as well as improving systemic issues that limit access to prescription medications. In

addition, Levine hopes to develop access to quality mental health care because she believes that behavioral and mental health is interchangeable.

“Innovations will come out of this administration … [the health care system] will look substantially different in four years,” she said.

To ensure that the priorities of young adults align with their legislators, Levine stresses the importance for all young adults to be engaged in their community and be politically involved.

“It is important to vote … know who your legislators are and get involved in terms of advocacy … It is important for us to be visible and to have a voice that must be heard,” she said.

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MERT showcases organization’s diversity in inaugural First Aid Week Events include yoga classes, First Aid Festival SYDNEY SCHAEDEL Contributing Reporter

TRISTAN PEYTON Incoming Engineering freshman Tristan Peyton, a football player from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., had always dreamed of being recruited to an Ivy League school. He credited this goal to Dominick Pierre, a running back at Dartmouth and one of his role models, who graduated from his high school four years previously. During the spring of his junior year, the prime season for football recruiting, Peyton was contacted by every single Ivy except for Penn.

But after a great football season during the fall of his senior year, in which he was named Player of the Year for his conference, Peyton was finally recruited by Penn, and ultimately decided to withdraw his early decision application to his original first choice school, another Ivy. When he visited Philadelphia in January, the city and the campus made an impression on him, and although the cold weather came as a shock, he committed to Penn during that trip.

Peyton described the feeling of knowing where he was going as "ecstatic." Penn’s top engineering program appealed to him academically, and as a Christian, he was drawn to Penn's football team — the only one in the Ivy League with its own chaplain.

“It was a dream come true,” Peyton said of his acceptance.

LANCE YASSAY Incoming College freshman Lance Yassay, a native of Michigan, said that he fell in love with Penn long before sending in his application. Yassay, who ran track in high school and wants to study science, was attracted by the welcoming nature of Penn’s track program as well as the Biological Basis of Behavior department in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Yassay’s moment of triumph arrived when he received an email from Penn’s track coach promising to support his application — at that moment, Yassay said he realized his dream could become a reality. Since he was in his high school's library at the time, he had to contain his excitement. Sure enough, Yassay received his early decision acceptance to Penn in December.

Besides the appeal of Penn's track team and science program, Yassay is looking forward to leaving Michigan — the majority of his classmates choose to attend college within the state. “A place like Philly and a place like Penn — that’s a huge deal,” he said.

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Penn’s student Medical Emergency Response Team may seem rather enigmatic. The acronym MERT is heard frequently enough around campus, primarily in the form of a verb, for when someone has to be attended to for overdoing it on a weekend night, or “MERTed”.

But students ultimately don’t know much about the organization beyond its reputation as a fleet of late-night rescuers.

In the coming week, MERT is working to show that their organization is even more than that, through their inaugural First Aid Week, which stretches from Sunday to Friday.

“Last year we had a First Aid Festival to commemorate our 3,000th call,” said Sandra LozaAvalos, college sophomore and MERT’s Disaster Response Team Officer. “This year we made it this nice big event with all the partner organizations we have, and we wanted to extend it

to a week.”

Loza-Avalos also hopes to generate interest through the overlap with the Penn Relays.

“These events are open to anyone — not just Penn students. Since the First Aid Festival is happening during Penn Relays hopefully we can get a large community showing,” she said.

First Aid Week kicked off on Sunday with safety classes for women throughout the day, led by Penn’s Division of Public Safety. For the rest of the week, MERT and its other partner organizations such as Student Health Services, the Consciousness Club, and the Office of Alcohol and Other Drugs will hold a variety of events all over campus. On Monday at 6 p.m. in Houston Hall there will be Health Jeopardy. Tuesday’s event is a Panel called the Highs and Lows of Diabetes at 4 p.m. in Irvine. Interested people can catch a yoga class at 7 p.m. on Wednesday on College Green.

The week culminates in this year’s First Aid Festival, which will be held on Friday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., also on College Green.

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Incoming Wharton freshman Jennifer Tran was primarily drawn to Penn by the reputation of the Wharton School. But Tran, a native of a small town called Regina in Saskatchewan, is also excited at the prospect of living in a large American city like Philadelphia. Her hometown is so remote that she was surprised when she was offered an alumni interview — she had no idea that any Penn alumni lived close to her.

Since Tran’s test scores were not as high as she would have liked, she was even more surprised when she received her early decision acceptance to Wharton. Since she hopes to pursue a career in finance, Tran believes that attending Penn will give her a real advantage. “I knew that Wharton would open up a lot of opportunities for me,” she said.

But as for next year, Tran is most excited to get to know her classmates. She said that she has already connected with the other students in her class via social media and is looking forward to meeting them in person. “Everyone is so cool,” she said.

“At the First Aid Festival we plan to have games where people can interact with our equipment, and get to know what we do and our services better, as well as the services that our partners provide,” Loza-Avalos said. Additionally, student EMTs from Drexel and Temple will be participating, as well as members of the Philadelphia Fire Department.

Also intrinsic to the process of putting the week together were College Juniors Christine Hill, Community Relations Officer, and MERT President Sara Jones.

“Obviously everyone knows

that we respond to calls and respond to drunk people…but we’re emphasizing that we are a health resource for all different types of situations,” Jones said.

“We respond to a lot of people who are having panic attacks, so we’re showing that we can be a resource for all those things as well.”

Since next year marks MERT’s 10-year anniversary, Jones is hoping the week-long event will continue to grow. She said they plan to “expand it to Villanova’s EMS organizations, or LaSalle or other local organizations and have it be a mini collegiate EMS gathering.”

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The Quakers held up their end of the bargain on Saturday. But now they need some help.

Penn men’s lacrosse pulled out a 15-12 victory over Dartmouth at Franklin Field in its last game of the regular season.

The Quakers (6-6, 3-3 Ivy)

celebrated Senior Day before taking on the Big Green (4-7, 1-4), but it was a junior who provided the heroics in this match up, as attack Nick Doktor had the most explosive offensive game of his career, scoring five goals and notching three assists.

“He’s been very, very good all year for us,” coach Mike Murphy said. “He’s usually more of a distributor than a scorer, but he’s just a very good overall lacrosse player, and those guys will always capitalize on their

opportunities.

“He’s really become more confident and more athletic in his time at Penn. He really does excel because he can see the field so well and move by his man and win his matchup, and he did all that today.”

For the duration of the game, the Red and Blue never trailed, but the contest was certainly closer than Penn would have liked. After the hosts jumped out to a 7-2 lead, Dartmouth came roaring back, cutting the gap

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to 7-6 and eventually evening it up at 10 at the end of the third period.

“That was the most frustrating part of the game,” Murphy said of the blown lead. “You know, in an attempt to prevent that, I had called timeout at 7-2 and told them, ‘Hey, let’s keep playing here, let’s keep playing like it’s 0-0 and try to extend the lead.

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In the most prolific day of his collegiate career, junior attack Nick Doktor carried the Quaker’s offense, scoring five goals and earning three assists.

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For the second straight year, Penn baseball controls its own destiny with a four-game series against the Columbia Lions on the horizon.

Princeton may have been the team in the opposite dugout this weekend, but for the Quakers, keeping pace with Columbia has been the chief concern as the race for the Lou Gehrig Division championship continues to gain steam.

Tied atop the standings heading into the weekend the Red and Blue couldn’t afford

less than a sweep against a struggling Princeton squad.

The Quakers did their part.

They dominated the Tigers in all four games, taking the series by a combined score of 21-5.

In Saturday’s first game, Penn (22-12, 16-2 Ivy) smacked seven doubles, half of its total hits for the game. After a subpar performance at the plate on Wednesday against NYIT, senior Mitch Montaldo emerged as a catalyst for Penn’s offense against Princeton (6-31, 3-15 Ivy).

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Freshman Jurie Joyner had an important RBI in Penn’s third game against Princeton this weekend, knocking in a run early to keep the Quakers within reach. The Red and Blue surged ahead to win and take the series from the Tigers.

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games before dropping the fourth and final game in a close loss. The three wins increased Penn’s lead in the Ivy League South Division over Princeton to two games.

“It was important for us to take the series, especially when you’re at home,” coach Leslie King said. “A split wouldn’t have done it for us, so to take three of four was a good weekend for us.”

The first game began with senior pitcher Alexis Borden in the circle for the Quakers (19-17, 10-6 Ivy). The Red and

Blue ace did not disappoint, delivering a complete-game shutout, limiting the Tigers’ (15-22, 7-7) bats to a paltry three hits and only walking two while striking out five.

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TOM NOWLAN Associate Sports Editor

During Spring Fling weekend, Penn’s lightweights went down.

The Red and Blue’s rowing squad came up short in two separate events on Saturday, finishing second to Princeton in the Wood-Hammond Cup before falling to MIT in another race later in the day.

The Wood-Hammond Cup — held early Saturday morning in ideal rowing weather on the Schuylkill River — pitted the Quakers against Princeton and guest participant Georgetown.

Although Penn did manage to win the event’s first race at fourth varsity, it was the only victory of the day for the Red and Blue. The Quakers finished ahead of Georgetown but came in second to Princeton in

all of the other eight-man races.

In the day’s only four-man race, the Quakers came in a distant third, more than 30 seconds behind the second-place Tigers. In the only race in which Penn did not finish last, Georgetown glided to victory with a time of 7:12.7.

In the event’s main race, the Varsity Eight, the Quakers finished in 5:50.7, just behind Princeton, who won the Cup with a time of 5:44.8.

The Tigers retained their ownership of the Cup after winning the race last year.

After an intermission that featured the Robert E. Tiffany boat dedication, named after a class of 1955 Wharton graduate, Penn got back on the water for a matchup with the Engineers. The Quakers, perhaps weary from their earlier race, fell in all three matchups. The second varsity race was the most closely contested battle, as MIT eked out its victory by less than one length.

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In their races this weekend during the Wood-Hammond Cup, Penn lightweight rowing could not keep up with the crews from Princeton and MIT on the Schuylkill; however the Quakers were able to best their rival crew from Georgetown for their only win of the weekend.

Saturday’s action marked the final event in which the Quakers will participate on the Schuylkill this season.

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better.’ And we did the opposite.”

But Penn wasn’t about to let this must-win game get away. The two teams traded goals to equalize the score at 11-11. Then, at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Doktor struck twice to put his team up 13-11.

With the opposing net empty and Penn up, 14-12, in the final minute, freshman Kevin McGeary got the final word, firing one in to earn his second straight hat trick.

The seniors did their part on their special day, with Joe McCallion, Greg Caso, Isaac Bock, Jeff Puckette, Will Laco and Chris Hupfeldt each notching at least one point. On the defensive side, Matt McMahon caused a game-high three turnovers and John Lopes got the win in goal.

“It was neat [how] all of our seniors played a meaningful role. And it wasn’t gratuitous, we didn’t just stick them out there because it was Senior Day,” Murphy said. “All of the team’s seniors had a say in [the win], they really did make meaningful contributions, and it’s incredible to have a (senior) class that size where they can all contribute at this level.”

Penn finished its Ivy slate at .500, having won three straight after dropping its first three. The top four teams in the league will qualify for the postseason tournament, in which

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the Quakers played their way to the program’s first-ever Ivy title last season.

The Red and Blue got the win they needed to stay alive on Saturday, but with the other six teams in the conference not playing their final games until this coming weekend, the fate of Murphy’s squad is still very much up in the air.

At 3-3, Penn cannot catch 4-1 Princeton or be caught by the teams with 1-4 records, Dartmouth and Harvard. Brown, Yale and Cornell, however, are all 3-2. Unfortunately for the Quakers, none of those teams will play each other, which further complicates a potential tie-breaker scenario.

If Brown, Yale and Cornell all win, Penn is obviously out. But things get a big more murky if one of those three teams loses given the complicated tiebreaker process used to separate more than two teams with the same record, as two-way ties are determined by head-to-head.

According to Penn Athletics, Penn is in if Brown loses and either Cornell wins or Princeton and Harvard both win.

Either way, the Quakers are “in the clubhouse,” to borrow a golf term, and must wait for the rest of the league before finalizing the playoff picture. In the meantime, Penn will prepare to play No. 9 Virginia next Saturday in the ACC-Penn Classic.

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third inning. The squad never looked back, cruising to the 4-0 win.

Penn staked junior pitcher Lauren Li out to an early 1-0 lead in the day’s second game as Allen picked up where she left off, hitting an RBI double in the bottom of the first. The defending Ivy League Rookie of the Year later came around to score in a two-run third to put the Red and Blue up by three.

Li battled on the mound for four and one-third innings, surrendering five hits but managing to wriggle out of jams to keep the game scoreless. In the bottom of the fourth, Li helped her own cause with a tworun home run to cap off the

Quakers’ scoring for the day, as they prevailed, 5-1.

Jun ior capta in second baseman Vanessa Weaver performed well over the weekend, picking up two hits and an RBI, as did freshman third baseman Hayley Metcalf, who also had two hits in two at bats.

The latter came off the bench to fill in at third base for Li, who mans the hot corner when she’s not pitching.

“Hayley’s stepped up for us in Ivy League play,” King said.

“She’s come in for us when Lauren Li has pitched. She’s slotted in for us at third base and done some good stuff for us at the plate as well.”

Borden also started Sunday’s first game for Penn and began shakily, giving up two runs in the first two innings.

But freshman catcher Jurie

Joyner doubled in the bottom of the first inning to bring the score to 2-1 and keep the game within reach for the Quakers.

The game remained that way until the bottom of the sixth when junior catcher Korinne Raby and Weaver delivered back-to-back RBI singles to give Penn a 4-2 lead. Borden finished the Tigers off in the top of the seventh for the come-from-behind victory and another complete game win.

The Quakers’ freshmen gave the team an early 2-0 lead, as Metcalf walked and scored and Joyner smacked an RBI single in the bottom of the third for her second timely hit of the day. However, the lead would not hold up.

Li — pitching again for the Quakers — gave up a three-run home run in the top of the fifth.

The Tigers added two more in the sixth and one more in the seventh to pull ahead by two after scoring six unanswered runs. Despite putting runners on base in the bottom of the sixth and seventh, the Quakers were unable to score, falling 7-5.

While the Quakers try not to circle any games as more important than the other, it was hard for the team not to look forward to these four in particular.

“As a freshman, I didn’t know how big the rivalry was until I heard all the seniors talk about it,” Joyner said. “I just knew that this was something really special for us.

“To take three and take it right from under their feet was really awesome,” Joyner said.

“It felt great.”

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blissful and tearful. She was 14.”

At one point, Seaon’s parents wanted to go back to Korea, but Seaon and her sister Hayon pleaded against it. “I could not survive the education system. I would die there,” Seaon said, laughing.

“I was like, ‘Please don’t go.’ And then they found a happy medium and were like, ‘Oh we’ll stop in the middle of the desert’”— the desert being Dubai. Yunsun got a job teaching graphic design at Zayed University, and the family moved there in 2007.

standard orange pill bottle, which Seaon believes symbolizes disempowerment and sickness.

“We imagine and envision a world where taking medicine is an CASEY QUACKENBUSH 34th Street Editor empowering experience,” Seaon says, concluding her PennVention Seaon Shin sits in the third row presentation. “And we believe that of Levine Hall in the Wu and Chen PillPal ... can change the way we Auditorium with her three PillPal take medicine.” teammates in the adjoining seats — Lyles Swift, Wyatt Shapiro and A global beginning Seaon is all about youth empow- Minding the gaps Eric Chao. It’s the final round of Although she loves the fastPennVention, Penn’s annual tech erment. Back in her room on Pine innovation competition that offers Street, she explains that her pas- paced multiculturalism of Dubai, over $20,000 worth of prizes. sion for social impact started before Seaon was disillusioned by the socioeconomic discrepancies — Nearly 100 candidates submitted PillPal — even before Penn.

While growing up in Indiana, 12-year-olds riding limos to their proposals, and PillPal is one of the Seaon’s neighbors introduced her birthday parties contrast with the eight finalists.

The first group takes the stage, family to the Baha’i faith. Founded poor public schools of the city. and Seaon watches the slideshow in 1844 in Persia, Baha’i is a “It’s sometimes a little bit hard to from the edge of her seat with taut modern religion based on the unity center yourself in terms of finding a spiritual and material balance,” shoulders. She’s on deck to pitch of all people and beliefs.

Over the years, Seaon’s entire she said. her brainchild, PillPal, a smart, The feelings subsided when multi-pill dispenser, to the seven family converted from Christianity judges. She adjusts her hair a few to Baha’i. “The main driving factor Seaon found a passion in service projects. Through times and settles on a low ponytail was the focus on community and education and before heading to the podium. env i ron ment a l “Last semester, [my product n o nj u d g m e n t ,” work, “I discovdesign class was] talking about ap- she said. Baha’i ered a sense of plying smart technologies to dumb champions educainner peace and objects,” Seaon says from center tion and service “I discovered a ident it y,” she stage. “And I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it — fertile ground sense of inner said. “I was like, be fascinating if you could apply a for Seaon’s own peace and ‘Oh my god, if I smart nanoscale to a pill dispenser, curiosity. Through identity. could share this and be able to connect with people Baha’i, under” with other young st a nd i ng a nd far away?’” people, we could Seaon opens her presenta- improving human- Seaon Shin together grow and tion with the story of her mother, ity became central build this community.”

Yunsun, who lives in Dubai and has to her childhood.

But many youth struggle to dis“They believe that religion been battling an autoimmune disease for 20 years. Yunsun inspired should be progressive, which I cover what matters to them, let really like,” Seaon says. “If humans alone know how to pursue it. DeSeaon to create PillPal. Because the PillPal device syncs are progressive, then why shouldn’t spite Dubai’s affluence, the city with a mobile app, it would allow religion [be]?” Although she moved lacks any sort of structure geared Seaon to keep track of her mother’s around a lot as a child — from Cali- toward fostering innovation.

The Global Youth Empowermedical adherence. Juggling nu- fornia to Indiana to New Mexico merous medications often leads to — Baha’i ideals remained the ment Movement aims to fill that unintentional neglect and mix-ups, framework for her outlook on life. gap. GYEM is Seaon’s social In 2003, Yunsun had to go to enterprise based in Dubai that a problem for 75 percent of Americans. That adds up to about $4,000 Seoul for various treatments. Seaon promotes self-discovery and in wasted medicine per patient per gave up her last year of junior high entrepreneurship. Through workyear — a $300 billion cost for the and homeschooled herself through shops designed by educators, life U.S. government. PillPal aims to eighth grade so she could care for coaches and students, participants reduce these expenses by sending her mother through this rigorous gain the tools and networks to develop their ideas. Seaon deferred notifications to your phone remind- process.

“One day coming back from her entry to Penn one year in 2010 ing you when and how to take your the treatment, wherever I [looked to co-found this nonprofit organimedication.

But most importantly, PillPal I saw] some beautifully-made zation with her mother. Yunsun is a source of encouragement. The origami objects with a message,” loved being a mother-daughter mobile app allows friends and Yunsun recounted. “She thought- “power couple.”

“We all want to be doing somefamily all over the world not only fully made them and placed them to monitor a loved one’s medical in various locations in Grandma’s thing meaningful with our lives,” performance, but also to send sup- house, thinking that it [would] give Seaon said. “I think that’s a pretty portive messages or videos. Even me some space to smile and relax. universal sentiment. It’s not that the devices’ sleek, cylindrical Whenever I think of that situation, [the youth] don’t want to do someshape is more encouraging than a my heart is filled with warm energy thing meaningful, it’s they don’t know how. So for us, it’s if we can give young people the tools, then maybe we could inspire them.”

Seaon took a second gap year last year to develop the company and managed to raise over $250,000 for GYEM last year — $50,000 of that came from a contract with Pepsi to run a workshop for 200 underprivileged kids.

Despite her success, Seaon’s age provokes skepticism in adults who don’t take her seriously. “GYEM was one of the best communities of youth I’ve worked with,” says Hayon Shin, Seaon’s younger sister and Creative Director of GYEM. “Unfortunately, being youth also meant that having to deal with older people and their outdated and rigid ways was a pain.”

That is not the case in the GYEM office, where Seaon and Suzan Shedid, the operations manager of GYEM, have been working together for four years. Shedid admires Seaon for the way she AJON BRODIE | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER motivates her colleagues to create

a productive, energetic work environment. She knows how to get what she wants — at the end of the day, that’s what GYEM is all about. She’s “not your traditional colleague,” says Shedid. “She’s outgoing, likes connecting with people’s interests and knowing their story. In one word: empathic.”

At Penn, and beyond If it wasn’t for Wharton professor Katherine Klein, Seaon might not be back at Penn now. Klein has been a close mentor to Seaon since they met her freshman year during a management work-study. During Seaon’s second gap year, she was torn in deciding whether to return to Penn. Though she was eager to build more products and companies, she understood the benefits of earning a degree and wanted to rejoin her friends.

Seaon will graduate at the end of this semester so she can return to work as soon as possible. She will have completed all of her credits for her management, entrepreneurship and innovation major in three years. To do so, she has to take seven classes this semester. “But I don’t go to a lot of them,” she said, laughing.

When she’s not in class, she’s Skyping GYEM colleagues in Dubai at 4 a.m., pitching PillPal to pharmaceutical companies, developing a Wharton Social Impact Initiative Certificate or piloting PennPurpose, a spin-off of GYEM that will offer workshops tailored to Penn life. Seaon hopes to implement them into New Student Orientation.

College freshman Joebert Rosal participated in one of the workshops and found the experience to be invaluable. “The biggest take away came from a quote in a Ted Talk we watched by Simon Sinek: ‘People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it.’ This quote helped me to realize that what I do has to be authentic and that when that happens, people better understand and are willing to help you achieve goals.”

To Seaon’s suprise, PennPurpose even appeals to seniors.

“They want to do it now too because they’re at that transitory point,” explains Seaon. “[From] high school to college, everything changes for you. Then once you’re in the working world, you don’t have these massive shifts anymore.

There’s not a lot of time for you to actually stop and reflect like we have this time now.”

All of these workshops are a byproduct of Seaon’s ability to listen.

Colleagues, friends and family members alike praised her ability to step back, listen and think about methods of improvement.

For College senior Brennan Cusack, Seaon’s communication is contagious. “In a pre-professional university culture, your role as a part of a greater community can get lost in a drive to support only individualistic interests,” he said.

“Being friends with Seaon has kept me thinking how I can combine my interests and skills with a responsibility to make the world a better place.”

That’s exactly what Seaon plans to do after she graduates. “I love building things. I love creating,” she said. “I think there’s a lot of pain in the world. It really upsets me, and I want to have tools and capacities to be able to be fix things when I see them, work with local people, share knowledge across continents, across cultures. I want to be doing that wherever I am.”

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An engineering senior gives amputees the gift of touch ROSA ESCANDON 34th Street Editor

The bat creaks as it hits the ball.

First base, the couch. Second, the table. A middle schooler runs through the house. He made the bat himself, he says, customizing the stick to his hand. A cyclone of brothers follow him. With five boys, things get broken. Adrian Lievano, an Engineering senior, cracks the smallest smile as he shares this memory of his childhood in Miami.

It’s hard to imagine Adrian as a child when he straightens his suit jacket while sitting in a plush Houston Hall armchair. He would have worn sweats, he joked, but had just come from meeting Amy Gutmann.

In his nearly four years at Penn, Adrian has accomplished more than most can imagine. This year alone, he won the Pennvention Award for his senior design engineering project, BionUx, and the President’s Engagement Prize for a second project.

To the non-engineer, the mere thought of understanding exactly what Adrian is working on can be complex. One project, in layman’s terms, is a prosthetic arm called BionUx, which uses 3-D printing technology and the technological research that mimics touch. This is a fancy way to say he is constructing an arm designed for amputees to help feel their environment.

When Adrian explains it, he picks up the bottle of Honest Tea he’s been sipping and says, “Touch is important. We have so much sensation we wanted to recreate.” He loosened the grip on the bottle and let it slip through his fingers.

The arm will be equipped with custom sensors that record everyday information to mimic a sense of touch, he explained with a sense of ease. When asked about how all of this is possible in under a year, Adrian simply replied: “Funds are easy to raise. A lot of people want to help.”

Adrian’s partner is Engineering senior Matt Lisle, president of Penn ADAPT, a club dedicated to making different versions of prosthetics for amputees. The arm is only one of two projects Adrian and Matt are tackling together. Adrian recalled watching a video of children running to drink out of a dirty puddle. “It broke my heart,” he said earnestly.

Now several months later, he is planning his move with Matt to Kimana, Kenya, in a little over 6 months.

They’re using their Engagement

South Florida, Adrian and nine others went to Penn. As Adrian puts it, he “just landed here.”

For Adrian, education is all about passion. He insists that he couldn’t commit to any job or responsibility if he lacked passion for it. “Adrian is incredibly passionate about anything he does. He doesn’t half-ass anything,” said his teammate Aadu.

Adrian smiled as he told an embarrassing story about a time Aadu dropped a lithium battery onto a circuit and with a “puff of smoke that engineers just know means the death of their circuit.” He shared it with the feel of someone who deeply cares for the people of the team and not just the work.

All of Adrian’s stories end with people instead of work. When speaking about his prosthetic arm, he wound up talking about an eightyear-old amputee, also named Matt, who received a version of the arm.

The team got someone to paint a Yankees symbol on the arm because Matt loves baseball, Adrian said.

With the added grip, maybe some day Matt will be able to make his own bat and play baseball through his house.

Adrian also recalled a trip to China after his freshman year. He went to make ankle-foot prosthetics for children with cerebral palsy.

“They come in limping and they put it on and they just start running around and playing games,” he remembered.

For all the attention Adrian is getting between arms and water, he does not think he is saving the world.

Even after all the excitement, he remains humble. “Tech changes everything in society: the iphone, fire, 3-D printing,” he said. “I am grateful that people are excited about it.”

For Adrian, this is only the beginning. “I see myself going more into policy, education, sustainable development,” he mused. Next year, Adrian will spend six months in Philadelphia and then six months in Kenya, but after that, time will only tell were Adrian’s passions lead him to next.

Adrian is motivated by a simple but important notion to “try to make things better.” This is not remarkable to him, but maybe that’s the point.

Adrian is remarkable not only in his approach, not only in his accomplishments, but also in his thought process. “An engineer doesn’t have to be someone who studies engineering. ... All it takes is persistence and willingness to tackle a hard problem,” he said. “You just have to think like an engineer.”

It’s hard to imagine what it’s like AMANDA SUAREZ | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER to think like Adrian.

For Adrian, family has always Prize money to bring a cheap and effective way to supply up to 300 clean been essential. Growing up as the gallons of drinking water a day to a third of six siblings in an 11-person house, Adrian is used to having a village in the area.

When it comes to water filtra- “wolf pack,” as he describes it.

Before he was constructing tion, Matt and Adrian are using a method of adding organic filterants mechanical arms, Adrian and his to remove bacteria and dirt that has brothers were fixing broken Ninproven effective in small batches. tendo DSs and wood working Adrian hopes to prove it will work around the house. Though his father, on a large scale. Though he said that his grandfather and his two older “things in nature don’t always scale brothers practiced law, Adrian had up linearly,” he admits that he thinks his sights set on a different path. “I it will work. “Matt is more practical, wanted to make things to make you hear better or see better or what if I am more optimistic.”

Adrian’s accomplishments in the we could manipulate these cells,” he said. Adrian field of engineerswitched from ing are staggering studying bioto many, but he is engineering to the first to humbly I grew up hating mechanical engipoint out that he school, mostly neering at Penn is part of team of because of the after seeing “guys what he called “five in the shop turning crazy talented engineighborhood I the gears and cutneers.” He recalled grew up in. It’s up aluminum one occasion when not really focused ting and making all he was in the Engion giving kids these cool things.” neering Quad for an education. I Adrian’s deep 48 hours straight trying to make a grew up thinking, love of his family is obvious, but his small robot follow why am I doing memory of his a puck, but quickly this? Why study neighborhood is added, “You see math? I wasn’t more scattered. this in engineering interested. ” “I grew up hating all the time.”

Adrian’s team- Adrian Lievano school, mostly because of the mates only speak kindly of him. “He’s incredibly neighborhood I grew up in. It’s not eager to learn. He always asks ques- really focused on giving kids an tions about the work I do on the education,” Adrian said. “I grew up software and electronics,” said En- thinking, why am I doing this? Why gineering senior Aadithya Prakash, study math? I wasn’t interested.”

“I was the kid in middle school who goes by Aadu. “It’s crazy how well-rounded he is in all disciplines that all the teachers hated,” he joked.

In high school, Adrian had never of engineering. ... He’s such a good heard of Penn. He just assumed he engineer.”

Fellow senior design teammate would go to the University of Miami and Engineering senior Steven Xing like his older brothers and many put it succinctly: “He’s an energetic classmates. That was until Posse.

The Posse Foundation works with dude.” students overlooked in traditional college selection processes and supTurning the gears Adrian has found his new family plies them with scholarships and at Penn, but still keeps his family at support to get them into universities. As part of the Posse group from home close.

Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society.

President’s Engagement Prize.

Four-time Clinton Global Initiative Fellow. Sphinx Society.

University Scholar.

When looking at everything Shadrack Frimpong has accomplished during his time at Penn, it’s difficult to believe there was a time when the College senior was wearing tattered clothing in his poverty-stricken village in Ghana, where he almost lost his legs.

Shadrack is from Tarkwa-Breman, one of the most impoverished villages in Ghana. The mentality in the village was “be a farmer or have a family,” he said. Education was secondary.

When he was nine years old, what he refers to as a “miracle” occurred.

He contracted a water-borne infection during a favorite, seemingly innocent pastime in his village — swimming in the river.

Medics told him that the only option for removing the life threatening virus was to amputate both of his legs.

However, a resident physician at the city hospital had hope that they could re-diagnose the infection.

For Shadrack, that miracle instilled in him a lifelong belief in “second chances,” one he would follow in the work he would later do for others.

Returning to a starting point The College senior attended a high school in Ghana for the “needy but brilliant,” with his tuition fully paid, but housing and meals on his own dime. When not accomplishing schoolwork, Shadrack worked on the streets, selling gum and handkerchiefs in order to make ends meet.

When the time came to apply to universities, Shadrack had to take his dire financial situation into account. Though he dreamed of attending medical schools, he knew Ghanian ones would be too expensive. His advisors encouraged him to apply to American universities.

Shadrack spent his first year of college at the historically black Fisk University in Nashville. He recalls sharing historical similarities with his peers, despite not sharing citizenships.

While Shadrack enjoyed Fisk, Nashville and the proximity of Vanderbilt University, he felt that he needed to attend a university that had more opportunities for him, particularly in research. It was then that he decided to transfer and had his pick of a number of elite universities. He chose Penn after many professors responded to his emails about research opportunities and offered to involve him in their work.

Aside from his research, Shadrack also started two nonprofit organizations at Penn.

The first, Students for a Healthy Africa, assists impoverished communities in Africa. The group built a borehole in Nigeria, opened a clinic and provides health insurance for children with HIV. The second, African Research Academies for Women, was founded to encourage the

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SHADRACK FRIMPONG

involvement of African college women in STEM research.

Next year, Shadrack will continue working for women’s empowerment as a winner of the President’s Engagement Prize.

Using a grant of up to $100,000, he will construct a medical clinic and school for girls in his village in Ghana.

“I’ve been thrilled to be involved with an engaging, intel- he himself has faced, given that ligent, really, really smart kid,” he has faced so many barriers, is said professor Harvey Rubin. something that he’s really had to “He is so enthusiastic … He’s grapple with,” Ariel said.

Joyce and Ariel attended the thought this project through so carefully,” said Rubin, who will Clinton Global Initiative Univerbe Shadrack’s President’s Engage- sity 2015 conference in Miami ment Prize mentor. “I think it’s with Shadrack. “He was telling us really remarkable for somebody at a story,” Joyce said, “And he said his stage being so sophisticated in with such passion: ‘Oh Joyce, I his approach to the problem of ed- think that the cure to cancer is in ucating young women in his home the mind of a woman.’”

In spite of his achievements country, and coupling that with a S h a d r a c k ’s medical clinic is friends, advireally fantastic.” sors, mentors In between his and professors work on the projmost frequently ect, Shadrack will … he has this described him as fly back to the “humble.”

United States to unprecedented “He is a very interview for medpassion. At a warm and down ical schools. very early age, he to earth person,” knows what his Shadrack’s friend Standing out life-calling is. ” and College sophShadrack has so omore Kwaku many people in his life who have wit- Joyce Kim Quansah said. nessed his passion College senior “You need to be very close to him and drive firsthand. If they disagree on anything, to know what he’s accomplished.”

“He is the sort of person who it’s what they admire most about likes to take initiative even him.

College seniors Joyce Kim and when the odds are against him,” Ariel Koren met Shadrack through Quansah continued. “He started their involvement in the Sphinx these non-profits with no funding, and it didn’t look promising, but he Honor Society.

“He is really amazing, in the still found the resources.”

Besides crediting his commusense that people like Shadrack should not be at Penn. All the nity to his successes, Shadrack’s Ghanians at Penn are from really spirituality sets him apart, acwell-off families, but he’s from cording to College senior Sarah a really poor village in Ghana,” Appeadu. Appeadu sang alongJoyce said. “People like Shadrack side Shadrack in the New Spirit of Penn gospel choir. at Penn are really rare.”

“Shadrack really attributes all “There are a lot of passionate, hard-working, inspiring people at of his success to God,” Appeadu Penn, but what makes him unique said. “I think that also plays into — he has this unprecedented pas- his different mindset and unique sion. At a very early age, he knows path that he sets for himself which what his life-calling is,” Joyce really makes him stand out.”

Shadrack carries his Bible with added. “He has this incredible sense of humility, he doesn’t really him everywhere he goes. “I read self advertise at all. His work it and pray before I am about to truly speaks for himself, he never study … It is my relationship with speaks about himself. He talks God that has led me this far,” he about what he’s passionate about, said.

Shadrack’s energy extends to about others.”

Both said they admired the classroom as well. Professor Shadrack’s passion for learning Larry Gladney, Associate Dean more about feminism and women’s for the Natural Sciences, taught Shadrack in his course Physissues.

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class in a West Philadelphia high school.

Gladney said that Shadrack took the course seriously but was not afraid to make mistakes. “Everything is fun, everything is an adventure, everything is a place to show energy and try something new. It’s hard to describe the level of enthusiasm he has for everything,” Gladney said. “He’s kind of fearless.”

“Rarely have I met someone who is invested in leading by doing and leads by example,” said Neurology Professor Roy Hamilton, who is another one of Shadrack’s mentors. “There is underappreciation for how phenomenal he is.”

Frimpong’s “surrogate mother” at Penn is Dr. Tanya Jung, his College academic advisor. Jung helped Shadrack combine his academic and personal passions by pursuing a double major in biology and health and societies.

She added that Shadrack is unlike other students she has worked with before. “[He is] a rare individual, a matrix combination of self responsibility, strong work ethic, self reliance and the ability to ask for support when he needs it,” Jung said. “I find it rare in an individual of his age, and it has gone a long way.”

Jung saw Shadrack grow from a sophomore transfer to College senior, making waves throughout the Penn community. She said she has no doubts of his future accomplishments. “I’m fairly confident he will change the face of public health in Ghana, Africa, the world and continue to do that, above and beyond what one would expect from an undergraduate,” Jung said.

She said Shadrack is not the type of person to have grand, abstract dreams and leave it at that.

He carefully plans out the concrete steps to accomplish such dreams.

“When I first came to Penn, I was unknown,” Shadrack said.

“Just do your work and don’t worry about recognition. The goal should not be to be concerned about honors and privileges …

Make the world better than when we came.”

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Better luck next year as Penn goes winless in Ivy play M. TENNIS | Quakers

fall over final weekend JACOB ADLER Associate Sports Editor

Well, there’s always next year.

Penn men’s tennis dropped its final two Ivy League matches over the weekend against No. 48 Cornell and No. 23 Columbia, completing a winless Ivy campaign. The Quakers have now gone winless in their past 12 Ivy contests, with their last win in Ancient Eight play coming in a 4-2 victory over Brown on April 5, 2014.

On Friday, Penn took on Cornell at home and fell, 7-0. The Big Red (12-8, 4-3 Ivy) clinched the doubles point with a pair of victories by identical 6-3 scores. Colin Sinclair and Sam Fleck of Cornell defeated sophomores Matt Nardella and Thomas Spratt, followed by Bernardo Casares Rosa and Chris Vrabel topping the No. 74 duo of senior Jeremy Court and freshman Nicholai Westergaard.

In the singles matches, the Quakers (14-10, 0-7)did not fare any better, losing all six matchups.

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Junior Blaine Willenborg was one of only two players to even win a set, eventually losing to Casares Rosa, 3-6, 6-2, 3-6.

The Quakers then traveled to take on Columbia before being swept for the second time in as many days.

With the victory, the Lions (14-5, 7-0) captured the Ivy League title for the second straight year.

The onslaught began as Columbia captured the doubles point with Ashok Narayana and Dragos Ignat defeating Westergaard and Nardella, as well as Max Schnur and Bert Vancura taking down Austin Kaplan and Willenborg, both by the score of 6-1.

Later in the day, Willenborg and Kaplan each won sets — the second straight day they were the only two to do so — in singles, but fell to Ignat and Vancura, respectively. Court also put up a valiant effort against No. 18 Winston Lin, but lost 7-5, 6-3.

The Quakers have undergone a turbulent season. After starting out 9-1 and rising to No. 39 in the ITA rankings on March 3, the team struggled to remain competitive after losing its top two singles players in freshman Nicholas Podesta and senior Vim De Alwis.

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smacked six extra-base hits over the weekend, including five doubles and one home run. “We had a couple midweek games this week, and I wasn’t

swinging too well ‌ so I worked hard in practice Thursday and Friday,â€? Montaldo said. “I got off to a good start on Saturday, and that just kept me through the

715 is an iconic number in sports.

The figure is noteworthy primarily because of its connotation with Major League Baseball. In 1974, Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run, surpassing Babe Ruth’s record for long balls in a career.

This weekend at Franklin Field, however, 715 took on a different meaning for Penn women’s lacrosse. That’s how many days it had been since senior midfielder Shannon Mangini had scored for the Quakers.

Until Saturday, that is.

With just under nine minutes remaining in the first half of No. 11 Penn’s matchup with Yale, the 2013 Ivy League Midfielder of the Year – who missed the 2014 season due to an ACL tear – rang home a shot past Elis’ goalkeeper Erin Mullins for her first score since May 3, 2013. The goal put the Quakers ahead by two midway through the opening period as Penn rebounded from a midweek loss against No. 10 Princeton with a 13-7 win over the Bulldogs.

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The win allowed the Red and Blue (11-3, 5-1 Ivy) to secure a spot in the Ivy League Tournament that begins in two weeks.

Although Penn’s loss on Wednesday — coupled with Princeton’s win over Columbia on Saturday — eliminates it from capturing the tournament’s top seed and serving as hosts, the Quakers can still clinch a share of their ninth straight Ancient Eight title with a win over Cornell next weekend and a Tigers’ loss.

Against Yale (7-7, 2-4), senior midfielder Lindsey Smith got the scoring underway after slightly more than eight minutes had gone by off an assist from junior Catherine Dickinson. After the Bulldogs’ Maggie Pizzo knotted the score at one apiece, Cathryn

weekend. “ While the offense was firing on all cylinders over Fling weekend, the starting pitchers threw up consistent zeros. All four starting pitchers went at least seven innings and none gave up more than three runs.

On Saturday, sophomore Mike Reitcheck stole the show, going eight innings without letting one runner cross the plate. Senior

Avallone put the Elis ahead for the only time in the game off an unassisted goal with 19:27 remaining.

From that point forward, the Quakers managed to surge ahead with a streak of three consecutive goals over the course of seven minutes. After Dickinson scored off a feed from junior Nina Corcoran, the latter added an unassisted goal with 12:31 to play in the half before setting up Mangini for her emotional score.

After the Garden City, N.Y., native and unanimous 2013 first team All-Ivy selection scored, she immediately dropped her stick and sped to the sideline to hug her teammates and coaches.

The celebration didn’t last long for Penn, as Yale cut into the Quakers’ deficit with an

Connor Cuff was impeccable as well, holding down the fort in the series finale while allowing four hits and no runs over seven innings.

Cuff — one of the senior anchors in the rotation — displayed the resolve that the Quakers will need in their upcoming series with Columbia. With the squad tired after three games in under 36 hours, he remained stellar when the bats went silent.

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The fourth game was the closest as Penn won 2-0, yet neither of those run came until after Cuff threw his final pitch of the afternoon.

Sunday afternoon’s game was by far an anomaly for the Quakers at the plate. It was the only contest in which they scored fewer than five runs all weekend.

However, the difference in the game stemmed from upperclassmen stepping up, most notably Cuff, Montaldo and junior Matt Greskoff, who smacked a solo home run in the seventh to break the 0-0 tie. “I was hoping we would be in this position going into the last weekend. What more could you ask for to settle the division crown?� Coach John Yurkow said.

The entire team stressed the importance of keeping the momentum going into next weekend as it hoped to record a different result than when it fell to Columbia in a one-game playoff to decide the Gehrig Division winner at the end of 2014.

And Montaldo noted that this weekend games had a much different feel, despite Princeton’s subpar record. “It was huge,� Montaldo said on completing the sweep. “Every game is like a playoff series to us.

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After falling just short of the division crown last year, it’s safe to say the squad is excited to get another shot.

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unassisted goal from Keri Fleishhacker less than two minutes later.

Although the Elis threatened throughout the rest of the half, senior attack Tory Bensen scored on a free position shot with 6:34 left before the break to push the lead back to two.

Bensen continued the Red and Blue’s fireworks right after halftime with an unassisted goal less than a minute into the period. Her two scores bookending the break were part of a 6-1 Penn scoring run that expanded the Quakers’ lead from one to six in the span of 23 minutes of action.

Key to Penn’s surge were two unassisted scores from junior midfielder Lely DeSimone, and another Bensen goal. The squads traded the final six goals of the contest, with Dickinson scoring her second of the day with 98 seconds left to give the Quakers their 13th and final goal of the afternoon.

With the win, Penn is locked into either the second or third seed in the Ivy League Tournament.

After their matchup on Saturday, the Quakers and Big Red are guaranteed to face each other for a second consecutive meeting in the tournament, with the winner of the first contest receiving the No. 2 seed.

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Although most of Penn’s campus spent the weekend partying it up at Spring Fling, the women’s tennis team was all business, as it closed out their season with two wins against nationally ranked Ivy League opponents.

On Saturday, the Quakers, took on No. 75 Cornell, claiming a 4-3 victory.

The Red and Blue (10-8, 3-4 Ivy) won the doubles point after a pair of 8-1 wins by the No. 1 duo of senior Sol Eskenazi and junior Sonya Latycheva, and sophomore Luba Vazhenina and freshman Lina Qostal in the No. 3 position.

The singles matches appeared

to be going just as smoothly as the doubles for the Quakers, as Latycheva and freshman Ria Vaidya won easily in straight sets. However, Penn dropped three straight contests to the Big Red (9-9, 3-4), including a tough three set loss at the No. 2 position by sophomore Kana Daniel.

Luckily, senior and three-time All-Ivy award recipient Eskanazi battled back from a set down to clinch the win for the Quakers with a 6-7, 7-5, 7-5 victory. It was Penn’s second Ancient Eight road win of the season.

Sunday was a special day for the Red and Blue. Along with being the final match of the year against No. 46 Columbia, it was also Senior Day for Eskanazi and Alexandra Ion. After claiming the doubles point, the Red and Blue played several hard-fought singles

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matches against the Lions (12-8, 4-3), winning four of the six. The only two losses came from the seniors, as Eskanazi and Ion fell at the No. 1 and 6 spots, respectively.

With the Quakers leading 3-2 and two singles matches tied late in the third set, Penn got a pair of clutch wins from Latycheva and Daniel for a 5-2 team victory.

With these two wins, the Red and Blue closed out their season winning three of four matches against Ivy League opponents all ranked No. 78 or higher in the country. The team showed an impressive improvement from how it played at the beginning of its Ancient Eight campaign.

After losing three straight conference matches, head coach Senela Kunovac still believed that her team’s best tennis was still ahead. And with such a fantastic season finale, she didn’t seem the

least bit surprised.

“After our first win against a ranked opponent this season, we didn’t just think we were a good team. We believed in it. We embraced it,” Kunovac said. “The first win gave us the confidence that opened up the floodgates for us to play well.”

Along with the win, Sunday was a celebration of two of the most successful tennis players the program has seen, and for seniors Eskanazi and Ion, the day was a chance to reflect on their Penn tennis careers.

Eskanazi, who finished her career with a 75-29 singles record, will remember the team for more than just the tennis.

“The team was a family for me,” said Eskanazi. “Coming from Argentina, where my parents can’t visit me, I was at home on this team. I don’t think I would

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In her final hurrah playing for the Red and Blue, senior Sol Eskenazi went 1-1 in the No. 1 singles spot against Cornell and Columbia.

have gotten through my four years at Penn without them.”

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